One Hundred Years of Solitude

certain occasion a very
beautiful woman had come
into his camp in Tucurinca
and asked the sentries
permission to see him. They
let her through because they
were aware of the fanaticism
of mothers, who sent their
daughters to the bedrooms of
the most famous warriors,
according to what they said,
to improve the breed. That
night Colonel Aureliano
Buendía was finishing the